[Technology] Are we already living in the future as we imagined it?

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[Eeyore]

Perfect for football then. I'm sure I heard it say 'hold me back'

 

[Eeyore]

Are we already living in the future as we imagined it?​

I see no monorail to the Amex yet, so it is a no from me.

Yes. As far as I'm concerned, we are still in the 80s.

The ground was never built at Shepcote Valley and the monorail to it was never built. We have a long way to go.

 

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[Perfidious Albion]

Yes we see these robotic marvels and all sorts of innovative stuff, but how much of it ever comes into daily use and affects our lives ?
The things that do happen, like AI , seem to creep up unexpectedly. We are terrible at predicting the future.

 

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[HeaviestTed]

We are.

When I was a kid, I thought being able to see people when you phoned them would be so good.

It's not.

*edit* Maybe I should mention that at the time, we had A and B buttons in phone boxes.

In your wildest dreams did you think that people would see each other on their phones and use a loudspeaker in public?

 

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[Albion my Albion]

I heard it poops batteries and Musk has his DOGE uni-age wunderkinds trying to figure out how the robot K9 gets so much power in it's batteries. Trump thinks it's the Energizer Bunny that figured it out.

 

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[GingerBeerMan]

Yes we see these robotic marvels and all sorts of innovative stuff, but how much of it ever comes into daily use and affects our lives ?
The things that do happen, like AI , seem to creep up unexpectedly. We are terrible at predicting the future.

I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Can you name one thing now compared to 15 years ago which is tangibly different? Even the iPhone which is released every year is no different now to that 10 years ago.

 

[Home and Away]

I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Can you name one thing now compared to 15 years ago which is tangibly different? Even the iPhone which is released every year is no different now to that 10 years ago.

I would say working from home, streaming services, AI (in general), robotic mowers/vacuum cleaners, electric and self driving cars (and delivery robots/drones), airfryers, induction ovens and contactless payments (and not needing wallet/card to pay) are first things that come to my mind... I'm sure there are many other things that especially in work/commercial settings are different? This obviously depends what you do, where you live and many other factors... but then again... what is tangibly different now compared to the victorian times? You wake up, go to work to earn money, come home, eat, sh*t, socialise, drink, watch sports, sleep.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I was actually thinking about this yesterday. Can you name one thing now compared to 15 years ago which is tangibly different? Even the iPhone which is released every year is no different now to that 10 years ago.

Fibre optic cabling for the BT network 15 years ago was for big businesses only and was just being rolled out to households to replace dial-up data connections.

Now you have FTTP being rolled out nationally.

Oh, 4G and 5G too.